Montgomery Village Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Montgomery Village, Maryland: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Montgomery Village: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery Village spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Montgomery Village holds about 0.4% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montgomery Village would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,130 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Montgomery Village	30.3 min	60.6 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,826	3,728
Maryland	28.3 min	56.5 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,301	2,353
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Montgomery Village Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.3 minutes to get to work in Montgomery Village. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery Village

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Montgomery Village, versus 0.1% in Maryland.

Biking is unusually rare in Montgomery Village: 6.8 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery Village, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montgomery Village get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.2%	3.2%	13.6%	0.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	81.1%	3.4%	13.4%	0.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	81.3%	3.6%	12.6%	0.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	80.4%	3.8%	12.7%	0.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	78.7%	3.8%	14.7%	0.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	78.1%	3.7%	15.8%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	77.4%	3.9%	15.7%	0.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	75.5%	3.8%	16.8%	1.0%	2.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.4%
2017	77.0%	4.3%	15.9%	0.8%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	77.8%	4.2%	14.3%	0.8%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2019	79.1%	4.6%	12.9%	0.7%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2020	78.6%	6.3%	12.2%	0.5%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	76.3%	10.1%	11.5%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	74.0%	12.2%	11.0%	1.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	71.1%	16.5%	9.6%	1.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.3%	19.0%	8.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 81.3%. Overall it fell from 81.2% in 2009 to 70.3% in 2024, down 10.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montgomery Village: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 19.0% in 2024, up 15.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 13.6% to 8.3% of workers (down 5.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Montgomery Village

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery Village?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery Village leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Maryland for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

Montgomery Village Maryland Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery Village is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are less common than in Maryland: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maryland: 41.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.6%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Montgomery Village, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Montgomery Village Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Montgomery Village next to Maryland and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Montgomery Village	Maryland	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:59 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery Village were on the road by 8:01 AM, 25 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Montgomery Village now leave 23 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Montgomery Village has moved 31 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Montgomery Village in the whole series.

How does Montgomery Village's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery Village	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 min	28.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.0%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.3%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery Village is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

8.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Montgomery Village, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Montgomery Village, MD compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Montgomery Village, MD	25,048	30.3 min #2/2	19.0% #2/2	8:01 AM #2/2
Gaithersburg, MD	71,117	26.7 min	24.6%	7:57 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Montgomery Village, Maryland.

Is commuting expensive in Montgomery Village, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 252 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,826 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Montgomery Village, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Montgomery Village, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.